There are only two artists in music history to lift five Hot 100 #1s from a single LP – Michael Jackson and Katy Perry. Via their ‘Bad’ and ‘Teenage Dream’ albums respectively, the duo launched a quintet of chart-toppers to the coveted tally on the hems of awe-inspiring music videos and very dedicated fanbases.

Jackson’s iconic hits spent a collective 7 weeks atop the charts while Perry’s forgettable modern pop offerings spent nearly triple that time reigning. But, while the latter has his name etched in history books as the ‘King of Pop,’ Billboard thought it time to remind fans that this pop princess’s impressive sales performance is by no means anything to downplay.

Indeed, it’s no secret that her domination of today’s charts knows few rivals. But, just as the diva’s takeover of Superbowl XLIX’s halftime show approaches, the music Bible stacked up the pop titans’ follow-up records, ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Prism’ to see how well they compare to their respective preceding releases as well as each other’s.

Top Three Selling Albums of The Year Were All Released In 2013

The year’s fourth quarter is being greeted with dismal news: not one single album released this year has been certified platinum.

Indeed, despite at least 60 songs shifting over 1 million copies, their parent albums cannot proclaim such. We thought things were bad last year when only five albums went platinum, led by Justin Timberlake‘s ’20/20 Experience’ (which had sold over 2 million copies by last year’s closing). But, this year’s looking to be much worse.

To add insult to injury, 2014’s best selling album by a solo act is Beyonce‘s self titled fifth album…which was released in December 2013.

Extending her reign as the most commercially viable rapper (male or female) to debut after ‘Over’ rapper Drake is Nicki Minaj, who has blown hot pink dust in the face of a record once set by Pop icon Michael Jackson!

Exactly five years after Michael Jackson‘s passing, the UK’s ‘ITV‘ has announced that they are to honour the performer with a TV special birthed to celebrate his time at ‘Motown Records‘, and its impact on Pop culture as we know it today.

‘Golden Boy’ Quincy Jones has cited money as the root cause behind Sony‘s motivation to push new Michael Jackson music this week, doing so before his latest LP ‘Xscape’ debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200.